Felted Hand Bag

I believe that people of our young our generation win the US do not know how to ask for help, or how to approach helping others. I have created a functional 3D vessel that not only depicts my frustration, but visually provokes encouraging thoughts and actions for everyone to lend out that helping hand. Thus the making of a “hand bag”. The bag is made up of hands that I wet and dry felted. The hands are made up of a wide range of color values and temperatures that are felted together to show different personalities and peoples approaches to helping one another. The hands that are lighter grasp one another in an untypical fashion to show the kindness that people need. The bag is an actual hand that grasps your forearm comfortably. If unfastened, the hand opens up; one literally places objects in the palm of the handbag. The market at which my creation is targeted for is the fashion and accessory industry. This industry I feel has the most voice because it is versatile, portable and aggressive in a nonviolent approach for spreading messages.

"Hand" Bag

The ‘Hand’bag

Throughout college I have gone through the most changes and events in the shortest amount of time. I have had to shift gears with events and plans that my head is spinning just trying to keep up with reality and game plan for the future. I have had to deal with strange and unfortunate situations in my living and working environment. I have had extremely uncooperative roommates in my current apartment and partners in group projects. Our generation of young adults is being trained to function so independently that it causes selfish, unrealistic, mundane arguments. All because we have not properly learned how to listen, share, or sympathize with the people that we surround ourselves with. I truly believe that people of our young generation today in America do not know how to ask for help or how to approach helping others. I have created a functional 3D vessel that not only depicts my frustration, but visually provokes encouraging thoughts and actions for everyone to lend out that helping hand.

Thus the making of a "hand bag". The bag is made up of hands that I wet and dry felted. The hands are made up of a wide range of color values and temperatures that are felted together to show different personalities and peoples approaches to helping one another. The hands that are lighter grasp one another in an untypical fashion to show the kindness that people need. The bag is an actual hand that grasps your forearm comfortably. If unfastened, the hand opens up; one literally places objects in the palm of the handbag.

The market at which my creation is targeted for is the fashion and accessory industry. This industry I feel has the most voice because it is versatile, portable and aggressive in a nonviolent approach for spreading messages.